Welsh grans only

Thanks Anniebach, that is lovely. I often listen to Welsh choirs, there is nothing like them.

I moved back to Wales after my husband died to be near our children. I am now back home in every sense. Everyday I wake to the spirit of the country. It nurtured my very soul in the very dark days of being a widow, it has given me comfort in my grief. I can run on the beach with my dog and cry into the wind and walk in the forest and talk to him. I have made so many friends in the time I have lived here plus the bonus of my family. I would not live anywhere else.

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Hmmmmm… I am not a Welsh Gran but my mother was Welsh so hopefully You will accept my contribution to this thread. My mother was from Abercynon in South Wales. I have just come back from a holiday in North Wales, a coach trip in fact and I absolutely loved it.Wales is so beautiful and I love Tenby, a couple of years ago my daughter and I and my grandchildren went to somewhere called Barafundal Bay Pembrokeshire and that was absolutely stunning.I live in North Devon and we have some beautiful scenery but for me Wales is outstanding…

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Oh - I feel a bit teary reading all these lovely thoughts about Wales. I would so love to go there again but it is such a long way for us, I couldn’t face the journey again.

She had a phrase that she used to ask every boy I took hom e. It was "do I know your people?" Still makes me laugh now. She was such a star#1

I am Welsh. Born and brought up in South Wales. I think what makes Wales special, is the people who are very friendly. My grandmother mcould get your whole lifestory out of you in about 5 minutes flat! She was a lovely lady and when my mother died, she brought me up. I love being Welsh!

I would have been Senghenydd !!!!!

Espee so funny, I am now thinking would Welshpool have been more suitable than Catherine and my grandfather not
Owen but Trewalchmi

Saw a heron too

Esspee, ?.
Goodness knows what mine would have been - I suspect an un-fashionable part of S London!

So funny Espee ??

I live in my daughters house in north Wal.I love it here. Scenery hills beaches. I walk to the nature reserve every day.

Watched swans signets ducks ducklings moor hens and sa

My mother was a rather prim lady not given to speak about such matters but one day she was complaining about the stupid names so called celebrities were giving their children (such as Paris, Brooklyn etc.) I explained these were the places the children had been conceived. Shaking her head she walked away saying "It's just as well that wasn't fashionable when you were born or you would have been called Llandudno."
I reckon that gives me a claim to being a tiny bit Welsh.

I lived in Wales for 35 years but yearn for Yorkshire.

The musical language, the west facing beaches. The down-to-earth practical resilient people who also have time and inclination to write, sing and dream.
The myths and legends.
Memories.
Family.

To be Welsh isn't a nationality it's a spirit deep within. The sense of belonging to a nation is unrivalled. I'm from South West Wales and teach in a Welsh medium school. The pride I feel when a child from an English home speaks Welsh is immesurable. I know that people say it's a dead language, but it's certainly alive and thriving around here. I have 6 grandchildren who have all been brought up through the medium of Welsh, yet they all speak English perfectly.

I’m not Welsh - I think there’s some Welsh ancestry though, but I love Wales - what I’ve seen of it - and the Welsh language. I often wish I’d been born Welsh, just so that I’d grown up with it.
Still tempted to try learning it….

I was born in Wales in a tiny hamlet in the Preselis (Rosebush), went to Cardiff Uni, then moved to London for many years. Back in Wales now, in Pembrokeshire. Beautiful place, wonderful landscapes - driving through mid-Wales can take your breath away.

Casdon

I forgot to mention Portmeirion, which has to be the most stunningly beautiful folly in the whole world. A glass of wine on the terrace of the hotel, overlooking the estuary on a sunny day is my idea of heaven on earth. If you haven’t been, add it to your bucket list.

As a Scottish gran, I have to agree. We stayed in a cottage and had one of the nicest meals I have ever tasted (Welsh lamb), i the hotel restaurant.

I forgot to mention Portmeirion, which has to be the most stunningly beautiful folly in the whole world. A glass of wine on the terrace of the hotel, overlooking the estuary on a sunny day is my idea of heaven on earth. If you haven’t been, add it to your bucket list.

Lucky all of you who live there. I went there on holiday as a child, Colwyn Bay and other places. We also crossed Anglesey a lot to get to Holy Island and the boat to Dunlaoghaire. Then quite a few family holidays with our children, the last one on the Lleyn Peninsula. Lovely place. Wales is full of interest, beauty and friendly people, and I want to go back!!

Im originally from South Wales it’s a beautiful country full of friendly easy going people and we have 230 stunnning beaches . The male voice choirs still bring a lump to my throat
when I hear them singing.

Somewhat off topic but, in the 1960s Top of the Form was on tv. One of the school teams came from a town in South Wales. When they showed you around the town, I knew every street, and what was around every corner. I lived in Cumbria. I was quite spooked about it for a long time.
I married a man with a Welsh surname.
I love Wales but haven't visited often enough. We've holidayed in Llandudno a couple of times. Conwy is beautiful and I fell I love with the countryside around Lampeter.

Another half-Welsh, and still have lots of family in South Wales.

Wales is where I first learned to love hill walking. The very first hill I summited was a very little one - Twmbarlwm, for those who know the area - but for a small child being raised in the flatlands it was like a mountain.